PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does personality assessment mean? 

• PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT (noun)
  The noun PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT has 1 sense:

1. a questionnaire that is supposed to yield a description of a person's personality traits

  Familiarity information: PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT (noun)

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Meaning:

A questionnaire that is supposed to yield a description of a person's personality traits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

personality assessment; personality inventory

Context example:

a personality inventory is a direct test of personality, as contrasted with a projective test

Hypernyms ("personality assessment" is a kind of...):

personality test (any test that is intended to assess personality)

questionnaire (a form containing a set of questions; submitted to people to gain statistical information)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "personality assessment"):

self-report inventory; self-report personality inventory (a personality inventory in which a person is asked which of a list of traits and characteristics describe her or him or to indicate which behaviors and hypothetical choices he or she would make)